Nebraska Newspapers

    ! THE NEBRASKA HERALD
i i Is PI BUSHED WISELY BT
t il. D. HATHAWAY,
, KIlTtjB AND PBorBICTOB.
' ? Office corner Main and Beoond itrect. iec-
J CE! sa-ry.
i TERMS : 0 per nnnnin If paid in advance,
, $!. V) if not paid In advance.
JIASOMC.
Tl iTT?ycin Lodoe No. 0 A. V, A A. M.
Ilt'iruliT niectiii-s at their hall on the first and
third Monday fKMiiinfa of each month. Trans
ient iiretherit invited to visit.
1 JOHN W. fcliANNoN, W. M.
J. N. Wise, .-if.
Mic-v Lvv.k l'. I- A. F. A. M. Regular
rn.f'i'ics fi'ton I iin'l fourth Kridavg of each
SUth Masonic lull. J. N. WISE, W. M.
ttii. Wi nvK. Sec.
kuuaska . ihj-tkk No. R. A. M. Regular
v.nv'.:ltl"'' and fuiirth Tuesday eve-
' of each ia- .1 1 ii at 7i o'clock p. m.
L K. T. DI KK. II. P.
Easttpn str Ti:ci:i:kIiiim;b. Kcjrular meet-
nu. of the r'tiiii'tly !""e held on Wednesday eve
T.m?. on "r hetore the fall moon Of earn month.
;'Mi-fr M i-"'!!-1, their wie- sisters and
,'ijiuiirer- arc ii.vired to attend. I'nmarried la
.i ',.,'mij-t i i e ov.-r eishfeen yrar of litre.
I. II. WHEELER; I'utrob.
M"S. A I'kk. Patron era.
J. N. Wish, Recorder.
I. O. ii. T.
fn tvi: I!Nrn. X'.2 V. V. Leonard. W. C.T.:
.1. V. Lewis. U. W. Il.Uliis Jerree. Lodice
lirpu'v. Mw 'ts t Court House Hail every
Tuesday evnin. Traveling Templar respect
ing i-ivi? 'I. . .
l.c i! !K- Pi K Lin(;E. No. 1. E. 15.
t..-is. I. I.: V. K. H'hite. I. Meets at Court
!(.,:-, il.il on lii" first and third gaturduy even-
t i-h Til--ii1 li.
".-r.'t k i.on'.K No. 8. 0. J. 1'avin. V.
'. .; Ai iii-M l'"i::n.in. W a. AieeUl -at Mt.
j'1'i.- i'it e y tu.il y eveainir. .1
I-' : rt v ik 'a- !.:;;. No. II. ,i uhias Camhell,
V. I - T.: r . M. o inir. jr., W. Wtn..l. licsser.
I...!-" 1 -1 . 1 1 1 . Mil's every Wednesday even-T.-nvi
1- 1 tnpl.trs respectfully invited.
Tc tr.K ' '.in l"i.B, No. 21. Amu rin"ith,
,V. C. W. tf.s C. II. Win.-low.
1..1 ir I'rf.niy. Me n every Saturday evening.
r:-. 1'i-uipl.irs ara rctpeclluily invited to
.in i-t n il h 1 1 -i.
M iii1'!' . :. i ;;ii'.'. of tho Vestry 1st Tuesday
evi-tii immtli. at the Rectory; Quartoly
J mi. to. -;iy l.-t Mondays of May, A uKuat,
I .Sovemijcr .n: i Ei-'iru.iry.
II. St. iKO. VUUNJ. Hector.
.5 V,';. I.. H'l L'.l. fierk.
Wli.l.IT'i J'OTTIIXIJKli.
.TThUM:V AT LAW. Plattimouth. Xeb
H T. SJ. 3I.IMIIETT,
A TiOltS iiV A 1" L W and .Solicitor in Chan
1 rv, l'l:ilts:iioii;'i. Nubix-ka.
V:V AT LW, PlattMtuoutli. Neb.
: j Vii- I.:
i .i:. I ! '
I -.-I! I'.i-nl Estate, and puy taxeii for
1.
ir .vol and unimproved liitidj
Uune'J'iW.
n ixwi:i,a. &. cii.i.njv,
ATT'ltNi.'i S AT !.W and .Solicitors in
t"i:nici-ry. Nebraska. Otlice over
Wliii: .V I'.n li- . i nt Store. Inprl.
II. s. ji:xi(js,
ATT'iiiN KV AT LAW and tiencral Land
Air it. Line: ii. N"br:i.sku. Will praotice in any
I' the ( ' hi.-,. ..i ihe Stjiic. a.id will buy and sell
lie il E::i.' . cmiiici-'-ioii, pay Taxei. exntiiino
'lii.i-.S .V . uovIiMf.
Ir 3 W . THOMAS,
II ii ins i M .:i 'ii!!y located at Weeping Wit
"' t r r;'!i.. t, o il r- hi-" profenMun il nervier to the
eiii.e;i- of '.i s coui:ly, Nebra-ska. jjanT'li'.Hf.
: is 4.svs;sTO. 91. n.,
V:V-"lfl . aM SI K! EON tenders hU
.. i r : ---,.'ii-.! -e- i the citizens of ('asseoun-
Ile-j , .-.t Insist corner of Oak and Sixth
:r-- -: " M i i rreet, opposite Court
; I! . i-i..-: o .i!'h. :.e!,r.i.-k:i.
.j. r e: uti.is m. n.
I'il VS'.i I W .N il srUtJKoN. Into a Pur
on i t' i, ' el' i .10 .i;ny of the i'otomiie,
i : ! t -.a ci !i. .i !.: !.a. Ollioewith Jr. R. K.
, j i . i w : , ii. n . L i "i ' iv. t. opposite the Court
- !-. I'm i'c r c corner of Ro k and
- nil si i .-. i loots !!;! of l'. 1. (jitsit.
i Br. Sr:i'n. EtOIlCItTN,
t I'll".-!' 1 V.N .V i l'.'tEON Having located
!: j iiiL.- '.'::' r ! Mil.,, will a; tend promptly
c.ii:.-. Ijj:ii dir. an, I iiiLt.
Hinr-jstfiiii'l. I
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Ir.'Ll
I.. II. liKSNLtT
s. n. !iK.::i,t:i! &. to,
l- 'l . t .;..! i l a x i'l . irs Agents, NotaruK i
i'c . i ,, ,ii..J Lite iiisunnco Agents, l'larts-
; in.ia: ,. ; ' . ii-k.i. jeJ-itf
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l'" ,.r.et-r, corner of Main
i :it. oiMiit.'i. etirasK a.
i, i;-i in.- '',-c;t rt ..'.led ;:ii! ncv'ly furnished oilers
li:-icl, - .it etoiiin ni.:ti.ii..s. lioutd by the day
. . r v--- k. aifgl.
CS,4TT!10UTiI .tlll.l.
' I K!.-'KL. IVoin ioI .r. II ivim recently been
rei. ;:iv : and p'.a -e in thorough running order.
IJ-..IIU n oi k i i i i e on siior' notice. j'Ki.ooil liush-
- .: . lie t w.iiil"d inline liateiy, for wbi 'h tie
' 1. 1.....--1 ..rl, ,t p.ne will ne aid. aug2stl.
.:. . niB,
r. ' !,".;! Li:'-. A-- i b !'ii', Inlan landTrani-I..si:;"-,1.
..'T-ui. VV;!ita'rv risks at reason
, r ,: . ,-, ; me.-t 'eliiiblo C- mpa ii ies in the
i ii '. i S. , . i ,:',.. 'iv-isitu tho Court House,
l'!..isnio i- i. .t :. Imay'ltf.
"SiiS. J. F. fJOlIU,
.i - a i. i ; a new supply of (Joods,
, !l i.'s at i i ill a'oovo cost, and I5on
; - :, 1 -'I'ks and l.i -es, also colored
i i, e-t .it iV.mi ?.Vn to i-l.W.
-rt :.t 1 1 j ; an i U igirenhorn A" Cn.'s
uiarrtf.
iT'il
t ' !',: i v ; ANJi JOINERS Will do all
if w..,;. ,i; : ii- iiiii'.m short notice. Will take
e i! , .s i ii-c ;:!:tl .-i;iall. Hu t furnish material
v ,i.o, p on Mata street, oppo-
. y. I.. Cni'.p h.
2 CV.WIINTEU ANi) JOINER, will do all
4 i i ii i'iic on short roticeand in the best
I ' - c. ;s !cr oiiii iinj: .'iiadc on reasonn.-
I ie t. ri i july-jM"
f $20,000 Worth of Property
a C.i::-!.-: i: if off iri, i.-.w ith timber adjoining, near
sia.M-.ih. pi-ojici-ty in I'lattsmouth City,
J.1 -, e:;- '. .i'olis. I tc.
i . I' fun :u.r parlicuiar enquire of or address
CiE. W. COI.VIX.
:.;;.I.'t .oii.r.i.T:). riattsmouth. Neb.
SEWING MACHINES
F. P. TODD AGENT,
PL.m sMOUUI . KBR.-1Sk1
A g-e. I ;i-- irtinei-.t of Machines on hand. I
n u ke p i iir. ad. ':!. Needles. AO.
.M ieiiir,. - ;,, r)il; ,v t1K month.
Oilice u-h side Mainstreet. det'OTtf
, PlUCt: & LAMBING
T. i . e o;...;ic J a s!i"t en Sixth street. South of
.M n:!. 'i re t!:: y are prepared to dv all work in
til,' ll'a i, .;ni; hiug line ou short notice and in
: the b. st style, .-dmciinr. Repair::!:, and nil
r -i :'..-oi custom worn done promptly. ;augtt'
PIANOS,
.f O llfi V- TI UIAi It E O IV S !
i I n::i A.-cnf for the best Muieal Instruments
' ' i-!". I' r-i.n-i wis!::n to buy Piano. Cabinet,
? y. '!. ! ! :::i:i or l'orf::(ile Organs, or Melodeons
e-i.i pun has,, li.rou-'ii my Agency u a liberal
i : rn;s us i'i, v can ironithe iiiiin faei urers thein
J -ill'". .U lustr'.UMcnis tuliy warrantetl.
. li ilt;. J. N. WISE.
C c:l. I). L I !t(JO &, CO.,
i Wholesale and retail dealer, in
I WINES AND LIQUORS
A!.o a very cboioe selection of
ToniCCO CIGARS,
'4 1 " -reit. se.-ond door ea.st of the Seymour
i ''i:e. Nebraska City. Neb.
i ,,''r'' i reecivii! a new Stok of Genuine Mld
- 'iirb-in .Erect from Rourbon county, Ky.. Bit
' re. e:c. mylMw.
tjHralt Si, Comfort anX cunomr
i-
j Three reasons for boardins with
-: t r'!''Oi(i-, W-OoLVIN.
f ok sTitErT, PLATT'jtnrTn, ypB.
t
.Two blocks north wr-.t of brick Schixd Hong,.
Heh ia RATH IIOI'SE. free to patron: his
,'..o.i - are well vcjiuUled, and hi prire,T rea-
'cb'' Liul:.-2?
:IE11ABIA HElALDo
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VOL. 5.
"Ordinance. ; 1
A.v Obdisasck (TiatitinK certain privileKc?. and
leasing the Levee Grounds of the City to the
1'lattnraoiuh Loeknd Levee Cotapnny.
Section J." JJt it urduLit l Lt Hit Mi;"r ami
Cilir t'vuncil of the 1'ity of J'uttnuoulli. That the
IiimJs of this, city known ug the levee
ground.", lyinx on the east side of this city
a nil on the we.-Urn bank ol the .Missouri river,
and exteniiir.ii alonir the biir.k of the Missouri
river the entire length of the easiern iidcd' this
city, together wilh all alluvial furuiuiious ac
cretions, s;iiei-Itirs stud i! a :i-1 - wlm-ii bav-b"eu,
now are. or may be hereafter formed on the Mi.
houri river aii'i otiposite the limits of said city,
be and the same ure In re',y .-i'uiaeil, Jvased and
quit-ri;iinjc'l lor the term of nini ty-nioe earn
Iroin the d.ite hereof to the corporation known
as "The I'l.ittsmouth J-oek and Levee Com
pany." which -iii.l corporation tiled their articles
of incorporation in the ClerkV otlice oft he county
of Cass. in the."-: Jteof Nt!ir-ka. at S:loo'clK'ka
the Hth day of July. A. L. ISoy. and ns appurte
nances to the said lauds ; the right to protect,
extend and improve the said levee grounds and
ail accretions tnereto; the right to elect and
maintain dork, piem. wharves, store mid ware
houses, elevators, or liny other constructions
which the Hireetors of the said corporation inay
deeiu nece--ary to do and truiisut-t a general
dock, warehouse, elevator and lev ? luisiness;
and the riht to charjre kui-Ii rales of whitrfiiire,
drayaire. and do kiige. liitniitiK fee-, dry-dock-iiiie
mid rents and charge for uso oT elevator, as
the liirectors o! the said corporation limy ilecni
reasonable: i'roriilnl ir.. That the rates
charzed by thef li'Ii irpoml ion slia.l he re.isona
ble rates; and. as far ns .lplicub'e. the average
an-! general r it.-s charged at the levees the
cities on he .Missouri river hetween the city of
Su Joseph mid Sioux City: An-l proriilxl
farther. That the said corporation shall pay into
the City Treasury annually, between the first
and third Wednesdays of the month of Augu-t
in each year, the sum of fifty dollars.
Svr. 2. xho Mayor, and E. li. .Murphy and F.
S. White, members of the City Council, or any
two of them, are hereby authorized to execute
and deliver to the I'latt.-iiiouth Hock and Levee
Company a lease of the aid levee
grounds, and all the alluvial formations,
accretions, sand-bars and islands, which have
been, now arc, or may be formed on the
Missouri river opposite the city of I'latts
mouth. in accordance with the provis
ions of the first section of this ordinance: and
the Haid l:ie shall be scaled, vith the
seal of the Keeonler's Court of the city of
i'lattsmouth 'such seal now he in? used as the
corporate seal of said city I by the Mayor, who is
authorized here specially to seal said
lease: and the Mayor and F. S. White
and E. li. Murphy, members of the City
Council, or any two of them, are authorized
to deliver the posses-ion of the said levee
grounds und the accretions hereinbefore spifi
fied to the l'lattsiiiouth !o:k and Levee Com
pany : ProriiiH. The majority of the Hireetors
of said Company shall within fen days after the
passage of this ordinance accept in writing
under their bands the provisions of this ordi
nance. Approved August ;id. 1 ;..
l. II. WHEELER, Mayor.
Attest: Wm. L. Wells. Recorder. augliw2
Martin Farrar a non-resident of the State of Nc-ba.-ka:
Will take notice that the Ruriington Mis--sourt
River Railroad Company in Nebraska has
located its road through and upon the following
real estate imnnl by him. situate in ('ass county.
State of Ncbrn.-ka. ntnl city of I'lnttsmouth. to
wit : Lot one in block one hundred seventy-one,
as is designated upon tile recorded and publish
ed plats of the city of Pinttsmoiith : and thesnid
.Martin Earrar is further notified that said Rail
road Company desires to take, hold and appro
priate said real estate for the use of its road ; and
if the said Martin Farrar shall not within thirty
days alter the publication of this notice for
four weeks, lo-wit : on or before the 4th dav of
October. A. lb 11(1, apply to the Probate Judge
of said counly to have the damages assessed by
six disinterested freeholders, selected by said
Probate J udtre. as provided in chapter twenty
five of the P.cvi.sed Statutes of the State of Ne
braska, and amendments thereto, said Company
will proceed to have the damages assessed as
therein provided by law.
Hated 4thday of August. A. I. lS'.i.
Iiurlingtou .V: Missouri Kiver Railroad Company
in Nebraska. l'.y T. M. MAUQl KIT.
aug 'wL . lis Attorney.
lYofice
The unknown owners fsnppnsed to be the heirs
of J. Pardee1, nuii-scsideiiU of the State of
Nebraska :
Will take notice that the Ruriington .V Mis
souri River Railroad Company in .Nebraska has
located its road .iiroiiuli and upon the following
real estate own -d I y iheui. situate in Sminilers
ounty. State of Nehra-ka. to v.it: The south
east iuiirtcr of seel ion two. township twelve,
range nine; ami the sain owners i wbue names in e
unknown' are further notilicd that said Railroad
Company de iir s to tuke. hold and appropriate
so ir.ajeh ot said real estate as may ho necessary
fonhc construction and convenient n-c ot its
road; and if thesnid owners who. e names arc
uiiknowiij jihi'.ll not within i hir.y days lu'ierthe
pubiieat ion of t his notice for lour v. t ks. to-wir :
on or beiorr-tn; d -.y 1 O -io'e r. v. n. ISi.m.
apply to trie Probate Judge of said county to
have i !ie uiimnrvs isc.-sc 1 by six .iisintens'.cd
frceholder-i. seUe..d tiys.dd Proi.iiie Jode. s
provided ::i chapter tw cof -live of tile Ki'.ired
Statutes of the St.i'e of Nebraska, and ainend-mvnt.--
thereto, said C ,i:p:iny will proceed to
have the damages assessed as therein providid
by law.
Pared 4th day of August a. !. 1S.:9.
U jrliiigton ,v Mi.s-our: Hiver Ka'lroad Coneany
in .eiir:u-K:u isy I. M. JIAHIJI r. 1 1.
augt"nv4. its Attorney.
r'oticc
Norton H'.rden, a non-resident of the State of
Nebraska ;
Will take notice that the Burlington Ar Mis
souri River Railroad Company in Nebraska has
located its road through and upon tho following
real estate owned by hnn. situate in Saunders
county. State of Nebraska, to-wit: Northeast
Tiiarter i' l of section eleven '31. township
twelvellji range nine '!: mid thesnid Norton
Harden is further notified that said Railroad
Company desires to take, hold and appropriate
so much of said real estate as may be necessary
lor the construction ami convenient use of its
mad: 'and if the sail Norton Harden
shall not within thirty days after the
publication of this noi ice for four weeks, to
wit: on or before the 4th day of October. A. I.
lSii't, apply to the Probate Judge of said county
to have ihe damages asses.-ed by six disinterest
ed freeholders, selected by said' Probate Judge.
a.s provide,! in chapter twenty-live of the lie
vised Statutes of the State of Nebraska, and
amendments thereto, said Company will proceed
to have the damages, assessed as therein provid
ed by law.
O.ited 4th day of Ausriit. A. n. I:p.
Ruriington .v. Missouri River Railroad Company
in Nebraska. Ry T. M. M ALOE El f, '
ougriw4. Its Attorney.
Notice
The unknown owner supposed to be T. J. Jo
seph ), a non-resi lent ol i he State of Nebrti-ka:
Will take noiicu tu it too Burlington Jr Mis
souri River Kaiiro .d l oiui-.iny in .Nebraska has
located its road tnroiiKh and upon the following
real ests i e owned l.y hi:n, si.uate in Siiundcrs
county. State of Ntx.raskit. to-wit: Sou'hwest
quarter ('i' of s,f!ion eUven ill-, township
twelve (l-i. range nine : and the sji id owner
(whose nnine is unknown is further tioiincd that
said Railroad Coinpniiy desires to tak-. hold and
appropriate so much cf said real estate as may
be necessary for the construction and convenient
use of its road : and if the said owner iwliosc
name is unknown) shall not within thirty days
after the publication of this notice for four
weeks, to-wit : on or before the -Irh dav i.f Octo
ber. A. I. ISoil. apply to the Probate' Judge of
saul eounty to have tue damuges assesses! by
six disinterested freeholders, selected by said
Probate Judge, as provided in chapter twentv
tive ,f the Revised Statutes of the State of Ne
braska, and aincnilinentsthercto, said Company
wdi proceed to have the damages assessed as
therein provided by law.
Hated 4th dav of August, a. p. Isotb
Ruriington A Missouri River Railroad Company
in Nebraska. Ry T M. MAKyl'E'IT.
augow4. Its Attorney.
itice
William J. Ford, of the State of Maryland,
will take notice that Robert R. Livingston, of
the county of Cass, in the State of Nebraska,
did on the .d day l" July. a. i. 1S.i. file bis pe
tition in the District Court of the lid Judicial
District of the State of Nebraska, in and lor
Cass county, against the said William .1. Ford,
defendant, setting forth that on the 14t!i day of
December, 107. defendant was indebted to him
in the sum of One Hundred and Thirty-six and
oO-ll') Hollars for medicines and for medical ser
vice and atiendanee furnished and bestowed by
plainniT for defendant at his request: and pray
ing judgment for said amount with interest from
December 14th. lSoT. : and defendant is further
notified that plaintiil'did on thciM day of July.
A. D. lso'., cause an order of attachment to b
issued from the otlice of the Clerk of said Court,
and did cause the follow ing real estate belong
ing to defendant to be attached, to-wit: Lots
seveu (7) and eight 8 in block eighty -seven 7i.
as thesnuic is designated upon the recorded plat
of the city of Platismouth, in Cas county. Suite
of Neoraska.
And the said William J. Ford is notified that
he is required to nop-car tnd answer said peti
tion on or belore ihe third Moa lavui'tcr the
2d day of September, a. c.ls.C.
Dated August HdlsoO.
Robert r. Livingston.
By T. M. MaRqi-ett. hi? Att'v. ' m w i
Estr.iy Notice '
.TAKEN UP ON MY PLACE. NEAR
Plattsmonth, two white Sows, weighing gbout
?!0 pounds each, with holes in their ears. The
owner is requested to call, prove property, pay
charges and take them away.
ju;y:w5 II. II. PETTIT.
TAKEN up by the snbscriber. in South Bend
precinct. Jnly .d. lSbf. One Iron Crey Mare,
supposed to be three or four years oid. three
white feet, branded "O. G." on near hind hip,
when taken up had on a leather head stall, and
was shod all round.
hlsyJi GEORGE D. JIATTLS0X:
Horace lii-eely In the Itiol.
Only ' a liunIrel umsket. h:ul beon
brought into the building during tin
night; but the-; by a happy m.-e h;id
btn ujaguilied in tho estimation of the
mob into at h'a.st five hundred. They
kejit the raseals at bay duiint. tin; ni,'ht,
but were totally insufiir.ent i'ir th-i regu
lar defense of the building. With even
a hundred brave men behind them they
ould no more have with.-tocl that itifu
riated crew of live iIkhi-.-hhI than a fea
ther ean withstand a whirlwind. Thi.s
was fully appreciated by the d. Liid-.-rs,
and it was determined that if the build
ing Ktand over night, to load it up to the
muzzle in the morning. Aocoiilingly,
by the following noon, it was a perfect ar
senal. The first floor wu ta.rieaded
with bales tif printing paper and provid
;d with a steam hose that would have
badly 'Veorehed' any intruder; and the
second storv had at one of the windows
i u small cannon loaded with irrape and
eanistur, at the oMu-r piles ot hand gren
ades ready to li.' hurled unon the rioters.
The third story was ejual!5' well armed
and in the larger editorial room were a
dozen forty pound hells. with fu-t:.s
shortened so they would explode on
striking the pavement. These, with a
brace or more of muskets L-t every win
dow, and a hundred and fifty de;crniiucd
men. all under eomniandofanexjM rieneed
arinJ iffieer, eonijileted the armuineut of
the building.
The arsenal Mr. (ireely entered about
noon on the second day of the tint, and,
making his way to the editorial rooms,
he looked curiously at the warlike prep
arations. ''What are these?"' he inquired in
sjieetiiig the shells, which were ranged
in an irregular semi-circle near one of the
front windows.
'"Halls of fire and brimstone fir those
red ragauiufiins. down there on the side
walks."
''Uut I wanted no arms brought into
the building."
"Yes, we know, but Col. Adsinis now
has command of the Tribune and we
propose to see this danee out if it la.-ts
till doomsday. "
Without any further rcmi'iks Mr.
lireeley went to his work.: and all the
day was knee deep in editorials an l ex
changes. Meanwhile a noisy moh was in posses
sion of Printing House Square, and who
ever entered or left the building was
greeted with yells and curses. and threats
of even rougher treatment. Siili a
throng of friends came pouring in and
out oil day, and these visitors so imped
ed Mr. (ireeley's work that it va S
o'clock at night before he had finished
his last leader. Am it grow toward dark,
one friend afler another wont to hhu ur
ging him to leave for Louie and, repre
senting the great danger of remaining
after sunset. To all his answer was, 'I
am not rmite through; I will go in a few
minutes. '
At last General liusteed cav.ie in from
the . trect reporting that the crowd, now
greatly auguinettU:d. were clamoring
wildly for "otild Gray ley. " 'It is abso
lute madness lor you to stay longer" s lid
he, but the answer still was, "I im
not ijuite through; 1 wjll ito in a lew
ruinates."
Eight o'clock came n lat, and then
Colonel Adams and ano'her eeiit'einan
sent out forac!o-e carriage to Ie brutrht
to tin; i-ide dour, and then goinj; to Mr.
(ireeley, aot o-tel him so.-nowhat as fol
lows: "Mr. Grecly, a ean'iaci will b hero
in-tatiilv. We w.Tiit vo;i to leave ihe
olT.ee."
"I :sni not quite ready : T v i!l
few n:i!!ict)ts," wa again ibe 'i'j':-
"We itist i.n you going now.
Ired and tiff v of us are risking-
go in a
t reply.
A h '.!-
:tr lives
tu. have
in defending vour buildup.
in i v
no right to add to our danger."
!
aro-e !
At tiii' tne pliuosophe:
:is, 1,,
oWIV
- I
I wii h a peculiar
mile
-.-U'-I :
"But
w hy order a oarriagre? I could
elVC gon
ju-t as well in a street out."
" ou couldn't have vol t;a ean Look
down there and see the kind of crowd
that -urroundr-: the building."
lie looked down and snw whrt might
Lave made a man of iron nerve turn
pallid. The infernal regions had been
unroofed, and the devils were there
shouting, : ud hooting, and howling, an I
g naning on the pavement. Such another
crew never got together on this or any
other planet: and as he looked they
shouted, "Come out. ye old hay then,
come out; and we'll raieh ye a naygur's
as good as an Irishman."
""'Well, they are a bar 1 looking set,"
he said, turning around and drawing on
his coat, preparatory to leaving ; "where
could those fellows have eome from ?"
He was smuggled into a carriage, the
door was clo.-ed, and in half an heur he
was miles away, in safety.
As a 1 know, the riot lasted two davx
longer. During these two days the Trlb
'e office and it- editor were in almost
hourly danger ; but Mr. Greeley came
and went as usual, attended to the duties
of his position, as if mly quiet were
reigning over the blood-deluged city ;
and all this while seme of the great
dailies were posting him as a poltroon,
and even a venerable archbishop had the
bad taste to politely brand him as morally
and jihysiealiy a coward.
t hatever may be the . facts touching
Mr. Greeley's moral and physical cour
age, he showed upon this occasion an in
tellectual courage that constitutes in very
deed a hero. Pttvlnrtr Monthly.
Bishop Simpson is thus sketched by
T. Jj. Cyler. in the New York nhprn
tbiit: "While Mr. Buiishon is the most
celebrated' and 'perhaps the most polish
ed of living Methodist preachers, Simp
son has the superior power over the
emotions. With an average Methodist
audience, the Bishop would call out ten
'Aniens', to I'unshon's one. But with
the pen Punshon is his master. Simpson
looks like an ordinary farmer, as you
meet him in the streits; yet he grows
handsome when liisl-ieiv l-m.l'osi ac'iiL in
spiration; in figure he is gaunt and hi '
nuios iie anour loose. like IT. liuth
rie's, Lincoln's and old Harry Clay's, Tn
the great work of saving the nation in
hor hour of agony. Simpson had a lace
as signally clear as Sherman's or St runon's
or Summer's or George Stuart's. He
led the Methodi-t corps; hut then they
had a man in almost ery regiment.
' She-idan. at the l-eainnir.g of bis I
career had a sharp strugg le wih poverty, j
: One of his resources was to wrire fugitive t
I articals for the journal.! of the dav. in j
i w hich be was helped bv his vift. Manv '
' year.' afte betook to politics, he observed
fo a mend: "11 1 had f-tuck to the law,
I hclive that I would have done as much
as Tom Krskine, but I have no time for
it, for Mrs. Sheridan and myself had to
use all our time in writing lor our daily
stock of legs and shoulders of mutton."
One of his friends, to whom he ron-
i fessed this, wittilvrenlied.'! se exant.lv
i how it was, Sheridan, you were at that
time engaged in a loii.t-stock concern."
Three swallows of iirpior pet- day will
swallov eighty acae? hA :rt ? yett.
PLA1TSM0UTH, NEBRASKA,
JI ittnkeii Jt'ulonsy.
It is not often that ieople are mistak
en on a mere question of identity, but
sometimes such things will occur. A
very amusing incident arising from this
cau-e occurred recently.
A lady, about entering a street car,
saw, as she suppo-ed, her husband tak
ing tender leave of another woman on a
street corner nearby. Having heard re
!eated rumors of Lis gallantries, she de
termined to settle the matter definitely.
With a rather hasty judgment, she raj
idiy regained the street and approached
the lady, who, standing on the corner,
was still looking after the gentleman, wh
had gone in the store.
"You seem to be very well acquainted
with that gentleman!" was, her sudden
and unexpected salutation.
"Madam!' was the surprised rejoind
er, accomiKUiied l3' a look which clearly
denoted her suspicions of her question
er's sanity.
"I say you appear to be acquainted with
that gentleman!"
"Well, yes somewhat."
"How long have you kuown him?"
"A number of years, lie's mv hus
band." "What do you mean?
greatly excited.
"dust what I saw
band."
cried the lady,
Ile a my hus-
The lady darted into the store.and the
next moment reappeared with the unfor
tunate benedict.
"William, that lady says you are her
husband."
One irlauee, however, was suiTioient;
the lady saw her mistake, and crying
with vexation and shame, frankly con
fessed hor mistake.
Ray I.ni:l. V
A leading Xew York journal says
tin '
"Within sight of Trinity Fteep'e, thore
lives not less than one hundred thousand
families in houses or parts of houses that
they do not own, paying the better por
tion of their income weekly, monthly,
quarterly to their landlords or their
agents ; prospering when times are good
and going behind when they are dull;
sometimes Mush, and then ariin hard un:
some prudent and frugal ; others reck
less and prodigsd ; two-thirds of theui
likely to die as they have lived, and be
carried out in their coffins from other
men's houses ; ceasing to pay rent only
when they cease to live. To these, one
and all. we say : You should try to own
land, if not this year, next ; if not in or
near the city, then in the wide, free
country. Buy land!"
We reiterate the exhortation to every
homeless person, "buy land." There is
not much danger of your getting enough
to violate the principles of Land Reform,
but you may get enough to make a home
stead, and save your rental. No man is
truly a freeman w ho has not some spot
of ground over which, he can exerc ise ex
clusive dominion. Merchants, bnv land.
I'vorylxidy buy land. lo so. and there
won't be so much left for spectators,
and you will share the rise in value 1 e-.-'
ies realizing the luxury rf owning the
roof that shelters your family. ("',v.
Tr.nift.
Two Huriclrril Miles in Four Uours.
The announcement of an express train
that shall run i'.'o:n Liverpool to Loudon
in lour hours is a remarkable event.
The distance is .o) miles, and in er'.-r
to mike the Hi'; mil! s per h'.tir'it v i'l
be neee sary to make it a ihrough train
that is. to a! tow no yin betw-en tho
two places. The, neee.-sity of stepping
lr water is obviate ! by a long water
trriugh at the nde of the track, from
which water i-; taken while the train is in
!.': i; m. by 't:iig down a seo::r which
shall vac' the surface of the cough,
and the velocity of the train will carrv
the water into tin tank. The largest
tenders yet made hold only about two
thousand gallons of water: but that
would la.-t only about one-third of the
distance. It may be found desirable to
i'se smaller tenders, fas one of these, with
its load of water, would weigh over 'S2
tons.) and have more troughs. The en
gines will have to be large and powerful
and most carefully made, as they cannot
be lubricated, nor ean the heated bear
ings be examined as often a-s is the case
in ordinary trips.
We had hoped this week to give our
leaders some definite information as to
the conui.eneeiuent of work on the road
we-t from Brownviile. It now seems
that the capitalists who were expected
to take hold of the matter are now stum
bling over the report of Chief Engineer
Mo'ilton of the North Missouri and
Trunk Bailvnads. The said Engineer
pi'ssoil up along the west bank of the
Missouri Kiver last winter on horseback,
and from observations then taken reports
the survey of the Trunk Railroad, and
adds that the only arable lands in Ne
braska are within fifty miles of the river,
and consequently the State Lands which
are all west td' this line, are comparative
ly worthless, being within that, hug bear
of years ago known as the Great Ameri
can Icscrt.
The capitalists aforesaid will first sen 1
a man to inspect the State Itinds before
they proceed further. We hope he will
come without delay, as the more they
see of our country the more anxious they
will be to invest their means in Nebras
ka. -liroirnville AJccrtifr.
Florence is described in a recent letter
as a slow place. The legend says t hat
Florence was built upon a field of lilies,
by refugees from persecution, about fit
teen hundred years before the Christian
era. The letter in question says the
poppy is a fitter exponent of the present
state. For a spell of sleep is upon her
politics, her religion, her industry, her
modern art. The driver lies asleen unon
his load: the huckster nods npon a bench i
nutMue his shop in the drowsy morning.
The writer has seen a bare-foot boy en
joying his siesia stretched upon the pave
ment of a crowded thoroughfare, and an
other throw down his cap lor a pillow in
the public street, with that careless
grace w hich liolongs to the Italian people,
as his sole preparation for sintilar slum
ber. The Orientals travel with bar gold,
coin and jewels to pay their way in for
eign lands, banking being very little of an
Eastern institution: therefore it is not so
very wrnderful to hvir that the Viceroy
of Ivrynt, to meet his. expenditures in
Englant came furnished with twelve
boxes of oak, l.eund with brass, each
liox being eighteen inches long, nine
inches high, and twelve in width, and
containing gold and notes.
One hundred and twelve Chinese
tomm arrived in California by the last
steamer. "Some of them have feet as
big a.s any other women's," says a San
Franciieo pajter.
A lady at Newport his a ring cut ot
solid diamond, said to bo tho only one in
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1SC9.
A Butter Story.
In 18.13 a family by the name of Van
Sickler moved into the townol'Towan
da, l'a., and took up as a residence a
place formerly occupied as a hotel. On
the preruiser was a deep well, originally
dug by, or for, Mr. Bean, the hotel
kei'K?r. At the time of building or
stoning up the well, a stone shelf was in
serted by order of the landlord about ten
feet down, for the purpose of depositing
in a cool j lace, butter, beef and such
other articles as might be considered
necessary to its preservation. The new
comers on the place the Van ticklers
soon detected, or thought they did, the
presence of decaying wood in the water,
and it was decided to have the well
cleared ouL Accordingly two old patri
ots were detailed for that sendee, fheir
combined efforts, after a few hours labor
resulted in their fishing up a butter fir
kin tightly sealed but black with a::e,
and its old staves nearly rotten through.
Mr. Mean, the old landlord, long since
retired from business, and then residing
a short distance from the place, was sent
for and came down, white-haired anl
venerable, bearing on his cane. After
looking at it a moment, the old man said
he could explain the whole matter. The
tub had been let down on the stone shelf
long years ago when he kept the hotel.
As near as he could remember, it was
over thirty years ago. The tub had dis
appeared in the night and it was stup
Hosed that it had been stolen. The well
had never been cleaned out before,to his
knowledge. The tub was now opened
in the presence of the little crowd that
had gathered. The lid was removed,
the white linen cloth taken up. and there
was the butter, yellow as gold. and. as
proved on tasting, sweet as if made but
yesterday, although thirty-one years had
elapsed since it first went to the bottom
of tho well, where it was now found,
like Truth, unimpaired by its long resi
dence. The old man claimed the prize
and carried it off rejoicing. Witnesses
are still living who were present at the
time, who v. ill, with ourinfornr.int.makc
affidavit to the truth in every particular
of this true butter story. In those days
butter was only worth from six to twelve
cents per pound; now see the difference
sixty to eighty cents, and the best at
that. Ax
When General Jackson was President.
Jiuutiy O'Neil. thei-orter, was a marked
character. He had bis foibles which
were offensive to the fastidiousness of
Col. Bonelson, and caused bis dismissal
on an average, about once a week. But
on an appeal to the higher court, the
verdict was invariably reversed by the
good nature of the old General. Once,
however, Jimmy was guilty of some fla
grant offense, and was summoned before
the highest tribunal at once. The Gen
eral after stating, the details of the mis
deed, observed :
"Jimmy, I have borne with you f r
years in spite of all complaints, but in
this act you have gone beyond my power
of endurance."
"And do you believe the story ?"' asked
Jimmy.
"Certc-i n';.'" answered the General.
"I have iu.-t heard it from two Sena
tors." r :i:
.,..,i:,.i t: t v..
i . jiii' i -.Miiiinv, ii a ;h
lieVi
..' M
:ui taat TWENTY Senators said
about vou, its little I 'A t.'iiiiiv you at to
be President."
"O. pshaw! Jimmy, concluded the
President, "clear out an 1 go on dury,
but be more careful hereafter."
Jimmy remained with his kindhearted
patron, not only to the close of his Pres
idential term, but accompanied hunt
the Hermitage, and was with him to the
d iv of his death.
Raeiielorx Attention.
The attention of bachelors is invited to
the following "wail :"
"There are some sad sights in this
world ; a city sacked and burnt a battle
field after a great slaughter a London
in the midst of a great plague a ship
burning at sea a family pining in star
vation a jug of molasses wrecked upon
the lvtvement. All bad, it is true.
"But to us, the .saddest sight, of all i
an old bachelor wearing toward the end
of his journey of life, his great duties un
done. Miserable creature ! just look at
him ; his shirt buttons off his stockings
out at toes not a son or daughter, nor
a relative to drop a tear, close his eyes in
death, or to leave his money to nobody
in fact to care for him shunned by saint
and sinner."
In the beautiful drama of Ion ; the in
stinct of immorality, so eloquent uttered
by the deatlv--devoted Greek, finds a
deep response in every thoughtful soul.
When about to yield his young existence
us a sacrifice to fate, his " beloved Clem
anthe asked if they shall not meet again,
to which he replies: "I have asked
that dreadful question of the hills that
look eternal of the clear streams that
How forever of the stars among who-e
fields of azure my raised spirit hath
walked in glory. All were dumb. But
while I gaze upon the living face, I feel
that there is something in the love that
mantles through its beauty that cannot
wholly perish. We shall meet again,
Clemanthe."
A Stockton (Cal. ) paper mentions, as
going to show the fertility of the San
Joaquin valley, that eight hundred and
seventeen tons of wheat left that town
on a single day of last week for San
Fnineisco. The grain crop in the San
Joaquin Valley is turning out much bet
ter than was expected. A larger breadth
of wheat wa-t sown than ever before, and
as many who put it in had leaed land at
high rates, or bought on credit, payable
on selling their crop, much anxiety was
caused by the light rains, and occasional
appearance of rust. There seems to be
no loneer reason to dread that a fair av
erage yield will not be realized, while
msny instances are reported of large
fiic Ids going forty bushels to the acre.
-V Unman Library Rat.
A gentleman, who was appointed to
value the extensive library of a deceased
literary gentleman, found that the most
rare and costly books in the collection
were defective from having one or more
leaves torn out. Shocked at their van
dalism, he asked a servant, who had lived
with the gentleman many years, if he
knew how it happened. After some
hesitation, the servant refilled: "Win
to le sure, sir, I now and then tore a
leaf out when 1 wanted waste paper, but
I never went twice to the same book,
so I thought it couldn't be of much con
sequence." An exhibition in Hamilton, Ontario,
came to a sudden close the other day.
A fifteen foot snake got out of hi cage.
He happened to be lively. He imparted
the faculty to all who. were in the vicin
ity. There are over two thousand visitors
at the Virginia Springs, mostly northern
and western people. They spend over
IlrellHiieoiiH.
Three thousand five hundred papers
are published iu the L'nited States.
The Lest clerk in the Internal Bevenue
of 'Ice at -Washington is a deaf mute.
He never gossips.
Sheridan defined an Irishman as a ma
chine for converting potatoes into human
nature.
Prentice says man w;is the chief eon
sileration at the creation. Woman was
on'y a "side issue."
A new tonic has been discovered. It
is extracted from sausages, and called
"sulphate of canine."
Bo make yourselves at home ladies,"
said a ludy one day t her visitors, "I'm
at home myself, and I wish you all
were."
Wheelbarrows have come down to
us through six centuries, and have hardly
experienced an improvement since the
lir.-t invention.
Pittsburg makes a joke of it -elf by
complaing that soot and smoke of a cer
tain railroad injure the flowers in the
gardens of that city.
The domains of Brighaiu Young are
recommended to bathers wdio cannot
swim, because the water on Salt Lake is
so denst that a man cannot sink.
Professor Blot is lecturing in New
Haven, and the boarders in that city
propose to prvsent the landladies of the
several lwiarding houses with free tickets
to the full course.
Emma Farristall, a Nevada gymnast,
is coming eastward. It is said she makes
a table of herself, and holds an anvil on
her brea-t long enough for a horseshoe
to be made thereon.
A man whose wife is a woman's
rightser, has orelored a gravestone, on
which is engraved, "Let us have poce."
He says he don't care much whether it is
erected over her or over him.
The late Henry Keetleft to his wife
and daughter S2,0i.M),0tHl worth of stock
of the Northwestern Railroad, with in
structions not to sell it, as it would pay
better than any investment.
A beautiful specimen of marble, much
superior to Italian, has been received at
the Land office from a new quarry dis
coveredrecenlly on the Fort Leavenworth
reservation,
A sagacious horse got tired of waiting
fir the ferry-boat to push off from the
Rock I -land shore, and pulled the bell
with his teeth, starling it off ten minutes
before its time.
Many rich silver andoopporveins have
been discovered recently in the Rattle
Mountain District, in Nevada. These
mines average forty per cent copper, and
in some instances from to $20 per ton
in silver.
The Rochester Century Plant has been
visited by persons from 2S different
states, an l also from several foreign coun
tries, as shown by the register of vi.ister
which has been kept .since the 1st of
J;iee.
The Minisiiers to England and France
receive S17..!.H a year each ; the Minis-
l t.irs to lliis-ia, Austria. Spain and Mex
ico, iSlL'.'Mit) each ; the Ministers to llay
ti and Liberia, ."ST.",!)'!; the " Ministers
resi l.o.t in Sweden, Belgium, Guataina
l;i. Bogota, Bolivia, and Nicaragua,
Tie; Union Pacific Railroad bridge
across the Missouri river at Omaha will
be the largest one yet projected over the
.Missouri river. It will consist of 11
spans of L'."0 feet each, ami is estimated
to co.-t. when commoted, nearly two mill
ions ol" dollars.
A little girl named Katie Pitt has re
ceived a premium iu Platte county, Mo.,
for committing to memory lo,(i,"7 verses
of th" Riblo. At last accounts she was
.-till alive, although it mav be doubted
; whether she can survive the 14.00(th
verse.
A citizen of Philadelphia who used a
solution of carbonic acid a.s a wash
to neutralize the offensive odor arising
from a cancer, discovered that the latter
wr.s entirely removed by the application.
The solution consisted of one-fourth of an
ounce of acid diluted in a quart of water.
The Cincinnati Tutus says the people
of La Crosse complain of the frequency
of lobberies and other outrages in that
vicinity. A community which can for
years withstand the daily puhlicut ion of
such a sheet as the La Crosse Driiwcrnt.
should not complain at any ordinary out
rage. Degroat is putting an immense bronze
casting of scenes in tin; life of Commo
dore Vanderbilt over the entrance, of the
llu l-on River freight depot in St. John's
Park. It will co-t SsoqKM, and is the
large-t casting in the world. The foun
dation alone co-ts Sti,t)00
A man in Hamburg. Pa., bought a
wagon-load of hoards about thirty years
ago, and failing to get the prie-e he asked,
determined not to loose money on them.
Accordingly they are still for sab; in his
yard, having never lieen removed from
the wagon, but team and boards are
mostly rotten wood.
A new fog trumpet has lately been
erected on Thacker's Island, of? Glou
cester, which is operated by ait Ericsson
caloric engine, rotates through an arc of
Isn degrees, and gives a blast of seven
seconds duration at intervals of forty
three seconds.
Pittsburg claims to have five hundred
and ninety-five furnaces, which work r.p
one thousand tons of iron kr day. and
the largest factory of plumbers ami gas
fitters material in the country. It also
tioasts of one establishment which makes
all kinds of nails, from the smallest tacks
to the largest spikes, and which has one
machine that turns out 3,o00 shoe brads
er minute.
A jury of a justice's court in a rural
district of California decided that the
State law prohibiting persons from car
rying concealed weapons is u.ieonstution
al, liocause the Constitution of the Uni
ted States says that "the right of the
people to keep and hear arms shall not
lie infringed ;" and the county judge
Mi-tuned the descision.
There is a man in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, who, while working as a machin
ist. Las mastered the French, German
and Italian tongues, made himself par
ticularly acquainted with Hebrew, and
obtained a thorough knowledge of botany
and geology. He continues to work on
from djy to day at the navy yard bench,
spending all his nights and noons in study,
and hu-banding all his earnings to pur
chase books, of which he ha-s now a large
library.
The Fourth District Court in San
Francisco has granted a divorce to a
youttg and lieautiful lady who was mar
ried to Joseph J. Smith of Salt Lake
City. The lady testified that Smith is a
deacon in the Mormon Church, and that
he has always treated Ler kindly, they
having lived pleasantly together for sev
eral years. Ilecer.tly however, Smith
concluded to have a second wife to which
Mrs. Smith objected, and so. when the
deacon took home his. new bride, wife
! Nf: 1 rtjrrjd tfi hi'V mother.
NO. -21.
Curiosities of the Ocean Itottoin.
Mr. Green, the famous diver, tells sin
gular stories of his adventures, when
making search iu the deep waters of the
ocean. He gives some new tketeh'es of
what he saw at the "Silver Banks,"
near Hayti: :
"The banks of the coral on which my
divings wore made are about forty miles
in length, and about ten to twenty in
breadth. On this bank of coral is pre
sented to the diver one of the most
beautiful . and sublime scenes the eye
ever beheld. The water varies from
ten to one hundred feet in depth, and is
so clear that the diver can see from two
to three hundred feet, when he is sub
merged, with but little obstruction to
the sight. !
The bottom of the ocean, in many
places is as smooth as a marble floor; in
others it is studded wiih coral columns,
from ten to one hundred foot in bight,
and from one to eighty feet in diameter.
The tops of tho-e tnore lofty support a
myriad of pyramidal pendants, each
forming a myriad more; giving reality to
the imaginary abode of some water
nymph. In other places the pendants
form arch after arch; and as the diver
stands on the bottom of the wean, and
gazes through these in the deep winding
avenue, he finds that they fill him with
as sacred an awe as if he were in some
old cathedral which had long been bur
ied beneath 'old oceans wave.' Here
and thoro the coral extends even to the
surface of the w ater, as if those loftier
columns were towers Iklongiiig to those
stately temples that are now in ruins.
There were countless varieties of di
minutive trees, shrubs and plants in
every crevice of the coral where the water
had deposited the least earth. ; They
were all of a faint hue, owing to the pale
light they received, although of every
shade, and entirely different from the
plants I am familiar with that grow upon
dry land. One of them in particular at
tracted iny attention. It resembled a
sea-fan of immense size, of variegated
colors', and the most brilliant hue. The
fish which inhabited those "Silver
Ranks," I found as different in kind as
the scenery was varied. They were of
all forms, colors and sizes from the
symmetrical goby to the elohe-liko sun
fish: from those, of the dullest hue to the
changeable dolphin: from the spots of
the leopard to tho hues ot the sunbeam;
from the harmless minnow- to the vora
cious shttrk."
A Itelle out of Tune.
Mary Clemmer Ames, describing
"Things Gone By," at Washington,
writes a-follows : The belle of the past
administration comes back expecting
without a doubt, to renew old conquests
and to achieve new triumphs. The little
girls whom she left in short frockf'she
finds in places she filled. She wonders
what ails the faces of her friends she
left them smooth and young, she finds
them lined and old and it does not ot;
cur to her that they are making the same
comments on her own. The man whom
she refused in her imperious youth, be
cause he was poor and posit ionjess. she
finds rich and powerful, wit it a fair wife
by his side, whom she cordially hates.
The old door keepers at the capital, w ho
used to swing back the doors of the di
plomatic gallery so obsequiously at the
very sight of Hon. 's daughter,
are now among the things gone by. '1 he
new ones, in the plain, middle-aged wo
man, recognize no foimer belle. They
challenge her ask her if she belongs to
"a member's fami'y." The "open se
same" has gone from her hands. She
has no choice but to go to a side gallery,
or to go home which, at pre.-ei:t, means
the hotel. She still assumes "full dress,"
lifts a bare and bony neck above a girlish
corsage of tulle, hangs the roses of June
in her faded hair. But in vain. She is
a queen without a throne. Her kingdom
and her subjects are among the things
gone by. To the can-less young gener
ation about her she is "only an old maid,
who was a belle once, mamma says."
She leaves Washington in disappoint
ment and disgust ; and she was a wise
wonxan who said that she would "never
come back again."
A Caution to !Uerrhant.
The New Orleans Ihlfn tells a good
story of a sagacious country gentleman
who came to that city some days ago
with a bill on a highly respectable firm
of the place. The bill was duly presented
for acceptance, and a young member of
the firm, a fashionable, showily dressed
gentleman, who had cultivated a very
dainty mustache, wrote with a gold pen
his indorsement on the bill, giving his
name in full, thus, J. Tomploton Tomp
kins. The countryman looked at the
signature, re.nl it slowly, glanced at the
fashionable merchant, who was fantastic
ally twirling his whiskers, and handing
the bill over to him remarked :
"Here strnger, cash this document."
"What!" indignantly replied the mer
chant, "discount my own paper, it is a
positive insult."
"Well, I can't help it," said tLe coun
tryman, "if you can't, I must get some
body else to do it."
To prevent h; paper from getting on
"Change, the merchant concluded to
cash the bill, and paying over the money
to the countryman, asked him quietly :
"Why, my friend, do you offer me
this gratuitous insult of requiring me to
discount my own paper?"
"I don't mean any harm, stringer, but
I have jest got an idear into my skull,
that when you see a merchant with that
har on his upper lip. and who writes his
middle name out m full, ami indorses
bills with a go'd pen, yon may put them
down as certain to bust in a week."
Iteejralnie n ."eeret.
The Newport Mtrcvry relates a capital
story of Stuart, tho painter, which illus
trates finely the power which a secret has
to propagate itself, if once allowed a lit
t'e airing, and to reach a few cars.
Stuart had, as he supposed, discovered
a s. cret art of coloring very valuable.
He told it to a friend. His friend valued
it very highly, and came a time after
wards to a-k permission to communicate
it, under oath cf eternal secrecy, to a
friend of his who needed every possible
aid to enable him to riso.
"Let mn. sett," said Stuart, making a
chalk mark on a board at hand ; "I
know the art, and that isj "
"fine." said his friend.
"You know it," said Stuart, making
another mark by the side, of the one al
ready mads ; "and that is
"Two," cried the other.
"Well, you tell your friend, and that
will be " making a third ni.rk
"Thrpe onlv," said the other.
"No," said Stuart, "it is one hun
dred and eleven !" (111).
The following points constitute the
basis of the Union of the old and New
School Presbyterian churches. 1st The
Old and new Testament. 2d, Th? West
minster catechism. .'Jd.Presbyterhn form
of church government. 4th? Psalmody.
It i? understood that, final action will be
I all" a by an --shl In Pirnrtih.
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Clippings.
Half an acre of cotton wns ptruckHrr
lightning in Columbus, Ga., killing, it as
"'dead as December."
The total amount of the Rifts present
ed to the Pope, on the occasion of the
fifteenth anniversary of his entering tho
priesthoood, is estimated 'mnt 20,000,000
i'ranes.
The Knoxville Whuj says it is esti
mated that the blackberry crop of Ten
nessee, if properly harvested, would
make loO.OOO barrels of wim, worth
aLnit $S,00O,000.
The Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad
is now finished to Fort Podge and the
Illinois Central operates it. The work on
the road west of 1 ort Podge is being push
ed with grave vigor.
Jefferson Davis was at last account.
making a tour through Scotland in the
congenial society of Charles Maekay, ono
of the most malignant enemies of the
Union during the lato war of the re
bellion. An American eagle parsed through
JIorncHvilKt a day or two Bincc, and
consigned to Horace Oreely. Ontho
lox containing his eagleship was written
the injunction: "Messenger, if you love
jour country, feed this bird."
A Chicago telegram of the 5th says on
Friday next far over the Pacific Railroad
from this city to San Francisco will bo
one hundred and thirty dollars a reduc
tion of thirty-thrco dolars. Emigrant
fare is sixty dollars.
Yankee Robinon's Circus Troupe
drove into Rrookville, Pa., on a recent.
Sabbath, and put up at; the hotels en
gaged for them. On Monday they werft
arrested and fined for breaking the fcab
bath by traveling on that day.
In the reign of Edward I, the price of
a Bible, fairly written, was !po7. The
hire of a laboring man was three-halfpence
a day. To purchase a copy of the
Bible would, therefore, take 4,tS0() days'
earnings of such a man, or aliout thirteen
years' a toil.
A conservative old human miracle of
Danville, Vt, in his eighty-fifth year,
who never rode in a stage, or car, or at
tended a circus, or lecture in his life,and
never got drunk, recently walked tn
Hanover, X. IL, a distance of 125 mile.".
A lady gathering berries in a field in
Central New ork was very much fright
ened at-discovcring a corpse with its
throat cut, She ran for assistance, ami
when she returned found that it was only
some rogue, who had stained his neck,
with some berry juice.
An effort is being made in one of the
churches in Cherokee count', Ga., to
exclude from the church all female mem
bers who wear hoops, paniers, Grecian
bcnuV, small hats, or use cosmetics. paint
or other appliances to make an external
show "for man's illusion given."
The Newcastle (England). Jxtnuil
siater mat a young woman has died
in
inac town lrorn a leprous disfa-c
municated bv the chignon .!,.,
corn
wore which is supposed to have contained
some ol the hair Innun L
to chignon makers from the cemeteries
of the Kast.
A. lady in Louisville was nyentlv nl
led by a burglar who secreted huiisolf
in her chamber until she retired. The
box font-airiing her jewels and that con-,
taurine- hor rouge wore alike and the thief
took the wrong Imx. She looked pale on
discovering hor loss, but her color came
again.next daj.
A meteor recently exploded near Eik
horn, Wis., and deposited on the ground
a mass resembling the oerbilar slag from
an iron furnace. A ciioular space of
sixty-loot in diameter was covered with
this substance which presented the ap
penrance of having fallen in a hot fluid
mass .spattering round the scoring after
it had struck.
The amount of business transacted in
the postofficc in N,cw York may bo
lU'lgea bv the f"t that tr.t .;.i ... .
1 open lor the sale of stamps in sums los
i I I I fill., mi lur rw, ... ....... . a. i
,. - ' .uv jt-ixnpi.t at- oacn
of those windows average $1,000 per
day The daily eonsuniption of stamps
at the office must be in all about .0,(xx.
Rev. Thomas S. Bnrnell and his wife,
formerly of Northampton, Mass., who
have been missionaries in India for the
last twenty-one years, recently returned
home to Northampton. They were 131
days in going to India when they first
went out, and but thirty-eight in return
ing, so great has been the improvement
in traveling within the last two decades.
An old French Countess, of the mo.-fc
exquisite politness, was about to breathe
her last, when she received a cail from an
acquaintance ignorant of her mortal ill
ness. The answer sent down from tho
chamber of the departing suffertr was
memorably unique:" The Countess do
Rouen sends hor compliments to Madam
de Calais, but begs to be excused as die
is engaged in dying."
A preacher who used notes had (he
misfortune to deliver a discourse or
rather, as the sequel will show, a'jiortion
of a discourse in a breezy spot, of which
rash act the consequence was that "third
ly" was missing' The embarressd pastor
repeated sevral times: "Thirdly, my breth
ren Thirdly."
This i lasted several minutes, till at last
an excited old lady rose from her seat and
exclaimed, "Thirdly went out of the win
dow. The fir t marriage ever performed at
Atlantic iitj Wyoming Territory
celehratod last, month ft ..
wa
. . ' ....... - ' tt.- a lasu
lonatile affair, nut tho tV'tli'ttoa
fash-
ing out all the usual accompaniments of
a wedding in high life were not at hand.
The wedding cards, the lest the market
afforded, were a t?ujxrior article of play
ing cards. The invitations were written
on the ace of hearts, the name of the
groom on the king and that of the bride
ou the queen of the same .suit.
Two New York ladies stopped their
carriage on a crossing. One went into
a store and the other remained in the
carriage. Two gentlemen wishing to
cross the street ordered the coachman to
move on. The lady in the carriage told
him not to stir. On this one of the gen
tlemen opened the coach door, and with
his boots and spurs stepped through the
carriage. He was followed by his com
panion to the extreme discomposure of
the lady within as well as the lady with
out. To complete the jest, a party of
sailors coming up and relishing the joke,
scrambled through the carriage.
"Old granny Silfuse," a white lady
residing in Brock's Gap, Borkiugham
county, Va., now in her ninety fourth
year, is one of the most active and indus
trious women -in the county. She yet
does the work of an ordinary young wo
man ; indeed, does more, for the has
been willing, old as she is, iu esses of
necessity, to go into the harves-t field
and assist in securing the crops. She
can spin, knit, sew and do all the o:din
ary work of one of the industrious wo
men of the olden time, who thought it
no discredit to earn her bread by tha
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